zedster:Cyno01: Nem Wan: For all the foresight/luck TNG had about touchscreen interfaces and tablets, their tricorder design was oddly inconsistent with that school of thought and looks pretty chunky today.

[ediciongeek.com image 610x370]They could have used one of their PADD props and called that the tricorder.

Mine is.

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Nokia N810 did it better

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The iScanner app actually does stuff, gives you GPS coordinates, uses the compass as a magnetometer, microphone as a decible sensor...